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...year's key protectors of the environment were the courts, which paid unusual attention to a new breed of conservationist lawyers. Despite a threat by the Internal Revenue Service to take away their tax-exempt status, groups like the Environmental Defense Fund pressed suits against governmental agencies and private industries. Legal actions prodded the Departments of Agriculture and HEW to expand ?and start enforcing?an existing ban on DDT. In Alaska, the controversial pipeline was delayed in part by a private suit citing the Environmental Quality Act of 1969, which requires federal agencies to study the environmental impact...
...great surprise that the Italian Communists should be so quick to criticize the errors of their Polish comrades; they are a rather special breed. Emilia-Romagna is one of 15 Italian regions that last June elected semiautonomous governments under a nationwide decentralization program -and the only one in which the Communists and their allies won a majority. Rather than use their new-found power to try to cast the region along orthodox Marxist lines, the Emilia-Romagna Communists-who have been the dominant political force in the so-called "red belt" of central Italy since World War II-have chosen...
Zero Population Growth. The angel of popular culture today is to his forebears what the last American buffalo, ailing in some future zoo, will be to the mighty herds that roamed the West: a token, a remnant of a spiritual breed that will never return. In the 13th century, Doctor of the Church Albertus Magnus held that there were nine choirs of angels, "each choir at 6,666 legions, and each legion at 6,666 angels." That made 399,920,004, all fluttering and hymning in orbit around the throne of God. Of these, one-third were flung down with...
...rapidly-dying breed of whale sang these "songs" in the Athlantic off Bermuda. Some of the sounds are laughably unmusical-the closest description might be of a constipated cow in pain. Others simulate underwater noises: burbling and the purring of motors. And there are a few beautiful echoing calls-like those chosen for back-up on Judy Collins' latest album-that send chills down your spine...
...being true once you've listened to it long enough. This cacophony of calls becomes something truly beautiful and soothing. It's not exactly the record you'd sit down and listen to with your parents while sipping after-dinner brandy-unless they're part of the new breed of over-30 freaks. But as a background to whatever you're doing or any mental trauma you're going through, whales are magnificent companions. There they are, singing to one another and a zoologist's hydrophones, telling you things are really fine under water, if not above...